Santa María

Art historian Schenone, one of the most renown experts in the study and analysis of the artistic patrimony of the Americas, presents a profound and detail analysis of the colonial iconography dedicated to the Virgin Mary in Latin America, in the last work of a trilogy that previously included studies on Jesus Christ and the Saints. This is a foremost study that represents a methodological and general vision of the iconography dedicated to the Catholic icon of the Virgin Mary in its most opposing conceptions, syncretism and recreations, including unknown popular representations. The book follows the spiritual route from Spain to the New World that priests, missioners, preachers, painters and artisans used in the creation of the vast production of iconographic works that adorned altars, convents, houses, churches and chapels of colonial México, Perú, Colombia, Chile, Cuba, Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay, Guatemala, Venezuela, Honduras and Nicaragua. In the first part Schenone organizes the representations of the virgin before time: the complex matter of the Immaculate Conception in the mind of God. In a second part, the author studies the representations related to the virgin's own time (her childhood, joys and pains, transit to heaven and glorification). A final section gathers the multiple venerated avocations in the most distant regions of the continent. MAJOR WORK AND ESSENTIAL REFERENCE with the collaboration of renown art historians Teresa Gisbert (Bolivia), Isaura Molina and Adela Gauna (Argentina), Ramon Mujica Pinilla, Rosanna and Lisy Kuon Arce, (Perú); Nelly Sigaut, Juan Gutierrez Haces and Jaime Cuadriello (México) among others.